I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
More Ben Elton Quotes
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Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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I did not vote Labour because they’ve heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.
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I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it’s a risk worth running.
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I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
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There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
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And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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We’ve all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that’s all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it’s just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
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You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
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